Saw a beautiful 1930 house in Old Miraloma Park today, on Rockdale Dr. atop Stanford Heights Reservoir. I've seen a few houses in that vicinity over time, and they all seem to be beautifully built from about 1930, superbly maintained, a really nice neighborhood overall.
The house listing:
http://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/751-Rockdale-Dr-94127/home/1175180
It's a Sunset style home but is completely detached. All the houses on this street seem to have beautiful front yards (as opposed to being paved over). The stairs are on the front. The front of the living room has nice windows that stick out so that you can get a better panorama of the surrounding area; in addition, there is a small breakfast nook that also faces the front.
It's got a nice typical flow in the front, with the living room flowing into the dining room.
The dining room has nice rounded ceiling and moldings:
The kitchen is a bit odd. It retains what looks to be the original 1930 kitchen subway tile (what a timeless look), pretty old cabinets (possibly from the 1930s) but has a marble countertop that while nice, doesn't seem to match with the rest of the décor:
The bathroom is also very classic - the floor tile may be original, and the wall subway tile is nice, though the color of the violet accents makes me think it might be more 1940s/50s than 30s.
The house does not have a center patio (which is a bit unusual actually for a house with this floor plan), but does have a sunroom in the back. The way this sunroom(a bonus feature) was built is typical for San Francisco in the 1920s/30s. In the back of the house are the two bedrooms, side by side. But instead of both bedrooms with windows that directly face the backyard, there is another room that both bedrooms can access, the sunroom. The sunroom, because it sticks out the back, has windows in three sides, hence the name. It can be used as a relaxation room or a study, but might be awkward as a third bedroom because whoever lives there would have to pass through one of the two bedrooms to get to the sunroom. Here's a photo of the sunroom from one of the bedrooms:
A close-up of the sunroom:
You can walk from the sunroom straight into the backyard, since the house is on a slope. The backyard feels like a real sanctuary or secret garden:
It's got a nice typical flow in the front, with the living room flowing into the dining room.
The dining room has nice rounded ceiling and moldings:
The kitchen is a bit odd. It retains what looks to be the original 1930 kitchen subway tile (what a timeless look), pretty old cabinets (possibly from the 1930s) but has a marble countertop that while nice, doesn't seem to match with the rest of the décor:
The bathroom is also very classic - the floor tile may be original, and the wall subway tile is nice, though the color of the violet accents makes me think it might be more 1940s/50s than 30s.
The house does not have a center patio (which is a bit unusual actually for a house with this floor plan), but does have a sunroom in the back. The way this sunroom(a bonus feature) was built is typical for San Francisco in the 1920s/30s. In the back of the house are the two bedrooms, side by side. But instead of both bedrooms with windows that directly face the backyard, there is another room that both bedrooms can access, the sunroom. The sunroom, because it sticks out the back, has windows in three sides, hence the name. It can be used as a relaxation room or a study, but might be awkward as a third bedroom because whoever lives there would have to pass through one of the two bedrooms to get to the sunroom. Here's a photo of the sunroom from one of the bedrooms:
You can walk from the sunroom straight into the backyard, since the house is on a slope. The backyard feels like a real sanctuary or secret garden:
